Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

This page shows stories whose rank on the Hacker News front page is significantly lower than their raw rank, indicating that they have been penalized by Hacker News moderators. See this blog post for a discussion of how Hacker News applies penalties. Click on the colorful stats below each story to see detailed historical charts. Click here for additional ranking algorithms

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FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home (theguardian.com)

×8.78 81 | 904 points by echelon_musk 21 hours ago | 567 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?

×2.81 75 | 123 points by rabinovich 13 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Verizon outages reported across U.S. (firstcoastnews.com)

×2.38 60 | 224 points by Scubabear68 17 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic Explicitly Blocking OpenCode (github.com/R44VC0RP)

×2.82 55 #75 | 157 points by ryanvogel 12 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Wind power slashed 4.6B euros off electricity bills in Spain last year (surinenglish.com)

×4.01 51 | 167 points by mooreds 15 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US freezes visas for 75 nations (mathrubhumi.com)

×15.41 46 | 193 points by cdrnsf 18 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says (reuters.com)

×7.93 45 | 146 points by barishnamazov 16 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI generated music barred from Bandcamp (reddit.com)

×5.15 42 | 929 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 711 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How have prices changed in a year? NPR checked 114 items at Walmart (npr.org)

×2.97 43 | 190 points by srameshc 19 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scott Adams has died (youtube.com)

×6.59 39 | 1050 points by ekianjo 1 day ago | 1728 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now? (eff.org)

×1.85 27 #53 | 334 points by hn_acker 18 hours ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
4k tons of potatoes to be given away for free in Berlin (the-berliner.com)

×1.80 26 #85 | 140 points by mrzool 19 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers (metabrainz.org)

×3.60 23 | 459 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Epic fined €1.1M over manipulating children through in app purchases (nos.nl)

×2.83 24 | 121 points by hvb2 19 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales (electrek.co)

×5.46 23 #36 | 596 points by MBCook 18 hours ago | 781 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Servo 2025 Stats (igalia.com)

×2.14 21 | 166 points by todsacerdoti 23 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Have Taken Up Farming (dylan.gr)

×4.55 29 #31 | 138 points by djnaraps 3 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
X 'acting to comply with UK law' after outcry over sexualised images (theguardian.com)

×4.32 38 | 5 points by beardyw 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Influentists: AI hype without proof (carette.xyz)

×2.71 21 #45 | 223 points by LucidLynx 15 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ASCII Clouds (caidan.dev)

×1.92 19 | 338 points by majkinetor 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts (afterbabel.com)

×3.07 19 #48 | 221 points by paulpauper 16 hours ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them (swinburne.edu.au)

×2.21 18 #43 | 504 points by OptionOfT 22 hours ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I’m leaving Redis for SolidQueue (simplethread.com)

×1.70 17 #74 | 305 points by amalinovic 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Never-before-seen Linux malware is "more advanced than typical" (arstechnica.com)

×1.73 17 | 125 points by Brajeshwar 21 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When hardware goes end-of-life, companies need to open-source the software (marcia.no)

×3.46 15 | 391 points by Marciplan 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
1000 Blank White Cards (wikipedia.org)

×1.97 15 #79 | 354 points by eieio 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I hate GitHub Actions with passion (xlii.space)

×2.71 15 #52 | 457 points by xlii 1 day ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Denmark sends military reinforcements to Greenland (dr.dk)

×14.40 14 | 113 points by mooreds 20 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The White House just said your life is worth nothing. Yes, literally. (electrek.co)

×3.75 17 #82 | 12 points by FabHK 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project (nothings.org)

×2.37 33 | 3 points by suioir 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK (bbc.com)

×2.00 12 #68 | 180 points by FridayoLeary 20 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Imperial Boomerang (wikipedia.org)

×1.50 25 | 3 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip (nytimes.com)

×2.78 59 | 3 points by mynti 22 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work (claude.com)

×4.77 9 #84 | 1290 points by adocomplete 2 days ago | 562 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A 40-line fix eliminated a 400x performance gap (questdb.com)

×1.69 9 #88 | 359 points by bluestreak 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Adding Dependency Injection to PdfDocument in iText (itextpdf.com)

×2.86 61 | 3 points by whizzx 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why NUKEMAP isn't on Google Maps anymore (2019) (nuclearsecrecy.com)

×1.60 9 | 130 points by fanf2 23 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference (owlposting.com)

×2.40 8 | 323 points by abhishaike 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The <Geolocation> HTML Element (chrome.com)

×1.76 8 #17 | 70 points by enz 5 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (amazon.com)

×2.52 9 #80 | 6 points by nickcotter 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape (jgc.org)

×2.98 6 #49 | 729 points by abnercoimbre 1 day ago | 634 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple Creator Studio (apple.com)

×2.93 5 | 512 points by lemonlime227 1 day ago | 433 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Every GitHub object has two IDs (greptile.com)

×1.70 4 | 322 points by dakshgupta 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and Solar Buildout (yale.edu)

×5.94 6 #7 | 97 points by mrtksn 2 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source (greg.technology)

×2.73 3 #39 | 279 points by evakhoury 19 hours ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation (sparkfun.com)

×2.65 2 #24 | 471 points by yaleman 21 hours ago | 473 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app (github.com/cjpais)

×1.95 2 #10 | 110 points by tin7in 6 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scott Adams has died (usatoday.com)

×7.80 1 | 423 points by schmuckonwheels 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???